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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 11:24:22 GMT
Many writers, such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert W. Chambers, have revealed to the world books and texts that are full of forbidden knowledge. These texts can drive the reader mad! Dare we put together a library of these monstrous tomes? Will our resident librarian Swampirella be driven mad? Or is she already? Only time will tell! Please list imaginary books to be found in works of fiction. (Such as Necronomicon) and where they were found in the work in question (owned by someone, in a library), and maybe what happens to readers (asylum visit). This should be fun. I'm sure we can find a lot of strange works!  |
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Post by Swampirella on Sept 16, 2021 11:29:28 GMT
Many writers, such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert W. Chambers, have revealed to the world books and texts that are full of forbidden knowledge. These texts can drive the reader mad! Dare we put together a library of these monstrous tomes? Will our resident librarian Swampirella be driven mad? Or is she already? Only time will tell! Please list imaginary books to be found in works of fiction. (Such as Necronomicon) and where they were found in the work in question (owned by someone, in a library), and maybe what happens to readers (asylum visit). This should be fun. I'm sure we can find a lot of strange works! I can confirm that I was driven mad quite some time ago. Why else would I be here? |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 11:32:00 GMT
 I noticed. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 11:42:03 GMT
I'll start if off with a book loaned to my champion Dr Strange, by a certain Mr Burroughs.
My Name is Legion: The Satanic Origins of the Christian Church, by Janos Szabor ("published in London by Chatto & Windus in 1951, translated from the Hungarian by Margaret Rushbrook Cobb").
Found in Angel's Inferno by William Hjortsberg
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 11:55:25 GMT
 Me swooning after reading the first page of that dreadful book! |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 11:59:13 GMT
Swampirella please supply a swooning couch for female readers, as the floor is rather hard.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 16, 2021 12:20:17 GMT
Fictional non-fiction books that I would probably read if they existed:
All Of Them Witches - JR Haslet (from Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin)
History of Witchcraft and The Truth of Alchemy - Julian Karswell (from Casting The Runes by MR James)
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Post by Swampirella on Sept 16, 2021 12:59:29 GMT
Swampirella please supply a swooning couch for female readers, as the floor is rather hard. How about this?
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Post by dem bones on Sept 16, 2021 13:00:46 GMT
Conrad Von Holstein's The Unnatural Enmities And Their Disposal, in R. Chetwynd-Hayes' The Jumpity-Jim, The Hostein Horror and, likely others. The King in Yellow in Robert W Chambers' collection of the same title. Sorry, you already mentioned that one. The deadly Model Girl glamour mag in Frank Crisp's novel The Nightcallers ( Bikini Girl in the movie). Wow magazine in The Cover Girl Killer. Edit: Just remembered, there are probably quite a few on this thread |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 13:09:03 GMT
Swampirella please supply a swooning couch for female readers, as the floor is rather hard. How about this?
I'll have a quick swoon and let you know. "Oooh, I've a touch of the vapours!"  |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 13:11:16 GMT
Conrad Von Holstein's The Unnatural Enmities And Their Disposal, in R. Chetwynd-Hayes' The Jumpity-Jim, The Hostein Horror and, likely others. The King in Yellow in Robert W Chambers' collection of the same title. Sorry, you already mentioned that one. The deadly Model Girl glamour mag in Frank Crisp's novel The Nightcallers ( Bikini Girl in the movie. Wow magazine in The Cover Girl Killer. Edit: Just remembered, there are probably quite a few on this threadI only mentioned the author, not his book. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 13:32:41 GMT
One of my favourite authors I've never read has one!
The Revelations of Glaaki by Ramsey Campbell.
I've no idea what it is about, or what story it appears in.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 16, 2021 13:36:47 GMT
Brilliant idea for a thread!
In Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, the rather arch and portentous narrator tells of a book that came to obsess the young protagonist:
The style in which it was written was that curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure at once, full of argot and of archaisms, of technical expressions and of elaborate paraphrases, that characterizes the work of some of the finest artists of the French school of Symbolistes. There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids, and as subtle in colour. The life of the senses was described in the terms of mystical philosophy. One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book. The heavy odour of incense seemed to cling about its pages and to trouble the brain. The mere cadence of the sentences, the subtle monotony of their music, so full as it was of complex refrains and movements elaborately repeated, produced in the mind of the lad, as he passed from chapter to chapter, a form of reverie, a malady of dreaming.
At his trial, Wilde admitted that this unnamed work was suggested by the novel of J. K. Huysmans, A rebours (which used to be known in English as Against the Grain, but somebody or other decided that wasn't blatant enough, and it's now commonly known as Against Nature).
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 13:39:28 GMT
In The Fall of the House of Usher, don't the narrator and Roderick Usher read various occult works? Are any of those made up?
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 13:44:41 GMT
Oh I know one! How good is that? I actually contribute!
Fungoids by Enoch Soames. A poetry collection.
From Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm.
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